Peter Pan, I am. Were the 90s that long ago? I am balking that they are being referred to in a vintage sense. Twenty years ago, the 90s were here: Caroline Bessette Kennedy, minimalism, alternative music, Nirvana, Grunge, coffee houses - it's been awhile. We are all young, stupid or free at least once in our lives - maybe lucky or unlucky to be all 3; and I was, back in the 90s, back in Minneapolis...I was going through the motions of college, trying to make all literal and figurative ends meet, and in retrospect, it was a tall order...I had been on my own for quite some time at that point and the novelty of being "away from home" et al. of my peers was not something I shared...I was a thirty year old living in an eighteen year old's body.
I had a lot of fun. So much, that despite all, there are no regrets. I loved the 90s and quite honestly, had I been young, fun, and a mess in any other decade, I probably would have loved the ___s, too.
So, in honor of the 90s, I will give posthumous props to Jeff Buckley; he is the perfect bard to give the 90s their proper due. He was a prodigy, a NYC music scene star, and like many before and after, he died before his time. I love to remember all of those things; the things I thought would never pass, the things I never imagined to be as past.
Here is his haunting and perfect rendition of Hallelujah:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKnxmkOAj88
